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MPs who opposed civil partnerships are now all for them. The Right will soon embrace same-sex marriage too

Tory parliamentarians will be mulling this weekend over next week’s vote on
same-sex marriage. May I take them back to another winter nearly half a
century ago, Monday December 19, 1966 . . .

It was late, 10pm: the Commons night when the most important change ever made
to the legal status of homosexual men in England and Wales was waved
decisively through. Every change since is dwarfed by the significance of
that moment at Westminster when the tide turned and the passage of the
1967Act decriminalising homosexuality was assured. Read the debate (http://tinyurl.com/anv7rnz).
Though some is filibustering by the Bill’s opponents,